5262: Transportation Modeler v2019.1

Lesson Objectives

• Identify Transportation Modeler (TMod) positioning in JDA Transportation Management Product Footprint
• Describe TMod
• List the tasks that TMod supports and does not support
• State how TMod can be used
• View how data flows in TMod

Lesson Exercises

Not Applicable

Lesson Objectives

• Perform basic navigation using the File menu, Home, View, and Map tabs
• Customize the quick access toolbar according to your requirement
• Use shortcut menus to access the commonly used menu and data selection shortcuts
• Use Control Center to create, build, and work with data tables associated with a scenario

Lesson Exercises

Not Applicable

Lesson Objectives

• Define a scenario
• Create a scenario in Transportation Modeler (TMod)
• Describe the three components of a scenario
• Define a starter model
• Build a starter model

Lesson Exercises

• Creating a Scenario‭
• Importing Data into the Location Detail Tables‭
• Setting Mandatory Fields
• Importing Data into Shipment Detail Table
• Importing Map Zones and Creating a Map‭

Lesson Objectives

• Define optimization
• Describe the data requirement for optimization
• Check and verify data either automatically or manually
• Edit, load, and save the Solver Options
• Optimize a scenario in Transportation Modeler (TMod)
• Perform either Cancel, Update, or Save task for the optimized solution and write XML files
• View data in Maps and Load Plan Explorer

Lesson Exercises

• Configuring the Solver Options and Optimizing a Starter Model
• Updating the Map
• Using the Load Plan Explorer
• Viewing and Analyzing Optimization Log
• Creating Summary View

Lesson Objectives

• Describe the following three components of a scenario Entities, Relationships & Attributes
• Create and copy a new entity and relationship
• Define the Data Hierarchy in Transportation Modeler (TMod)
• Describe the Upstream and Downstream Interdependencies between entity and relationship tables

Lesson Exercises

• Creating Entities
• Creating Entities Attributes

Lesson Objectives

• Creating a business hour ID
• Applying loading and unloading restrictions
• Setting up handling time
• Applying routing restrictions
• Creating transit override

Lesson Exercises

• Creating and Assigning Business Hours
• Creating Business Hours Exception‭
• Assigning Business Hours to Locations and Hubs
• Assigning Handling Times‭
• Assigning Routing Restrictions
• Creating and Applying Transit Overrides

Lesson Objectives

• Define a hub
• Add a hub in Transportation Modeler
• Create and assign a business hour in Transportation Modeler
• Optimize the model in Transportation Modeler
• View hub and loads on a map in Transportation Modeler

Lesson Exercises

• Adding a Hub
• Creating and Assigning Business Hour
• Optimizing the Model
• Viewing a Hub and Loads on a Map

Lesson Objectives

• Creating new shipments in the Shipment Detail Table
• Create commodity codes and exclusions
• Use shipment parameters to force the direct delivery of shipments to their destination
• Use shipment parameters to force shipments through a specific network routing
• Use shipment parameters to force a specific carrier/tariff/service for shipments
• Create and assign merge in transit groups to shipments
• Create and assign consolidation classes to shipments
• Create and assign order groups to shipments
• Create location group exclusions

Lesson Exercises

• Commodity Codes and Exclusions
• Creating Commodity Codes
• Creating Commodity Exclusion
• Optimizing the Scenario
• Force Direct Delivery
• Viewing Shipment Details
• Order Groups

Lesson Objectives

• Define tariff structure and components
• Create the following components in Access Rating Tool GUI and Access Rating Tool Excel Import-
• Carriers
• Tariffs
• Services
• Restrictions
• Charges
• Rates
• Lanes

Lesson Exercises

• Carriers
• Tariffs
• Services
• Restrictions
• Charges
• Rates
• Lanes

Lesson Objectives

• Explain the concept of delivery schedules
• Create a delivery schedule

Lesson Exercises

• Changing Selected Time Windows
• Setting Up Tariffs
• Creating Delivery Schedule
• Appling Delivery Schedule to the Service Exercise
• Testing the Impact

Lesson Objectives

• Define the strategy and parameter files
• Describe the functions that the Optimizer recognizes in a strategy file
• Edit a strategy file using the Strategy File Editor
• Describe a few parameters that the Optimizer uses to control shipment optimization
• Edit a parameter file using the Parameter File Editor

Lesson Exercises

• Setting the Solver Options
• Editing Strategies and Arguments
• Working with Variables, For Loops, and Plan Stacks Exercise
• Editing the Parameter File

Lesson Objectives

• Understand how to model carrier availability and lane availability in Transportation Modeler
• Enable and update Carrier Equipment Availability (CEA) constraints
• Enforce CEA and Lane Availability constraints in Transportation Modeler

Lesson Exercises

• Perform Baseline Optimization‭
• Carrier Equipment Availability at Carrier Level
• Carrier Equipment Availability at Tariff Service Level Exercise
• Lane Availability

Lesson Objectives

• Define continuous moves
• Describe how to model continuous moves
• Use the trip functions in the strategy file to model continuous moves
• Configure carrier and tariff settings to model continuous moves
• Describe how to model continuous moves using the Access Rating Tool

Lesson Exercises

• Viewing Shipment Details
• Establishing the Baseline
• Modifying Carrier and Tariff
• Optimizing the Scenario
• Viewing Trip Detail Table

Lesson Objectives

• Explain optimization metrics
• List the steps to configure optimization metrics
• Create optimization metrics using the Add Comparison Metrics, New Chart, and Load Chart options

Lesson Exercises

• Optimization Metrics
• Using Add Comparison Metrics Option Exercise
• Using New Chart Option